Ireland's Child Care Institutions during the 20th. Century. Fo'T: The most vivid and passionate stories - banished babies, cruel orphanages, old abuses of power - have concerned things that went unnoticed, or at least unarticulated, at the time. News has often had to be redefined, not as the latest sensation but as that which everybody knew all along yet could not say.

Thursday, February 12, 2004

When I was in those .....Places, (Now I’ve never thought of this before)They always seemed like passing through placesSomewhere temporaryBut now that I think on itLook back at the days passed I realise I lived thereAnd I live Here nowThis is my homeWith people I care about I know they won't hurt me.In those Places I lost all perspectiveOn what was truly love or hateSo I just flowed like a riverFrom day to dayAnd tried to guide my directionSo I could arrive somewhereMeaningful

Who is paying for the visit of this "false memory" organisation. People can spout out any kind of stuff from their mouths if they want, it is a "free" country, freedom of speech and all that; But why can't this organisation tackle the "religious orders" on THEIR memories?

Why attack ex-detainees? It's obvious why LOVE (and their black-cloaked conductors) is sponsoring this visit. It's to try to make fools and liars of ex-detainees despite the historical evidence.

Are LOVE and this organisation explain to us the findings of the Kennedy Report from 1970, the Department of Health's findings of 1967 on Ferryhouse in Clonmel which called that place a "Social Malaise". This 1967 report was due to the death of a fellow called Bowes who died of meningitis (caused by trauma). Or was all that happened in just Ferryhouse alone just a figment of the imagination?

LOVE's next mission is probably to get posthumous pardon for Brendan Smythe